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desk

/desk/US // dɛsk //UK // (dɛsk) //

办公桌,桌子,桌面,办公桌上

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an article of furniture having a broad, usually level, writing surface, as well as drawers or compartments for papers, writing materials, etc.
    • : a frame for supporting a book from which the service is read in a church.
    • : a pulpit.
    • : the section of a large organization, as a governmental bureau or newspaper, having authority over and responsibility for particular operations within the organization: city desk; foreign desk.
    • : a table or counter, as in a library or office, at which a specific job is performed or a service offered: an information desk; reception desk.
    • : a stand used to support sheet music; music stand.
    • : a seat or position assigned by rank: a first-desk flutist.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a writing desk: a desk drawer.
    • : of a size or form suitable for use on a desk: desk dictionary.
    • : done at or based on a desk, as in an office or schoolroom: He used to be a traveling salesman, but now he has a desk job.

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Examples

  • It can be easily rolled under a desk and kept out of the way, and rolled out when needed.

  • He sat at a desk and listened to his briefers, which included some boldface names from the Obama administration.

  • In 2011, Slootman was recruited to run ServiceNow, at the time a small software developer focused on the help desk market.

  • “On the retail front, it’s been very different than the past few years,” says Karen Chang who heads an options trading desk at Bank of America.

  • Pair these five-inch shorts with the Athena crop top for a set of basics that will take you from home desk to trail to swimming hole and back again without losing a beat.

  • I was sick in street gutters, onto my desk, at dinners with friends.

  • But Scott, in taking the parlance of the street to the SportsCenter desk, helped affirm its ascendance.

  • President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.”

  • While the desk sergeant ran a background check, he was roughed up by another officer in the lock-up.

  • She suggested that Gregory stack newspapers on his desk to give the set an intimate, coffeehouse feel.

  • At his desk sat his secretary, who had been a witness of the interview, lost in wonder almost as great as the Seneschal's own.

  • Taking his stand at the end of the desk, he made MacRae reiterate in detail the grim happenings of that night.

  • Dobson, mouth agape, struck a little bell on the desk and the orderly stepped in from the outer room.

  • When I again turned to Lessard he still stood at the end of the desk, industriously paring his fingernails.

  • He took his accustomed seat at the desk, and placed a large ledger before him.